Auto Thickbox WordPress Plugin
Automatically enables thickbox on thumbnail images (i.e. opens the images in a fancy pop-up).
The Auto Thickbox plugin for WordPress automatically enables thickbox on thumbnail images (i.e. opens the images in a fancy pop-up), through the use of WordPress' built-in thickbox library.
In the event you'd like to override this for an individual image, you can disable the behavior by adding the 'nothickbox' class to its anchor tag.
Thickbox Galleries
By default, the auto thickbox plugin will bind all images within a post into a single thickbox gallery. That is, next image and previous image links will appear so you can navigate from an image to the next.
The behavior is particularly interesting when you create galleries using WordPress' image uploader. Have the images link to the image file rather than the attachment's post, and you're done.
On occasion, you'll want to split a subset of images into a separate gallery. Auto Thickbox lets you
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Usage of Auto Thickbox over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 871 to 579 — down 292 (-33.5%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 579 | -18 |
| June 2024 | 597 | -5 |
| May 2024 | 602 | +3 |
| April 2024 | 599 | -7 |
| March 2024 | 606 | -76 |
| February 2024 | 682 | -12 |
| January 2024 | 694 | -62 |
| December 2023 | 756 | -48 |
| November 2023 | 804 | +2 |
| October 2023 | 802 | -31 |
| September 2023 | 833 | -30 |
| August 2023 | 863 | -7 |
| July 2023 | 870 | -1 |
| June 2023 | 871 | — |
Themes used with Auto Thickbox
Detected most often on sites that run this plugin.
| # | Theme |
|---|---|
| 1 | Genesis |
| 2 | Twentyeleven |
| 3 | Twentytwelve |
| 4 | Steelcase |
| 5 | Twentyten |
| 6 | Sem-reloaded |
| 7 | Responsive |
| 8 | Divi |
| 9 | Twentyfourteen |
| 10 | Atahualpa |
| 11 | Canvas |
| 12 | Suffusion |
| 13 | Twentythirteen |
| 14 | Graphene |
| 15 | Headway |
| 16 | Pagelines |
| 17 | Thematic |
| 18 | Avada |
| 19 | Sahifa |
| 20 | Weaver-ii |
Sites running Auto Thickbox
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